"Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities." —Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers
The first new automobile Steve Smith ever purchased, a stripped-down, bronze-gold Mazda 626, was barreling through some blistering heat in the Appalachian Mountains with the windows down on the last Sunday of August 1983. He was zooming out of Kentucky with a heavy foot on the gas pedal, pushing through southern Virginia, not too far from the North Carolina border.
A bank cashier, Smith was driving to interview for a job as an assistant basketball coach, and he was running late.
Three weeks prior, he’d moved into a new apartment with his pregnant wife, Lisa. Now, he was thinking about relocating six hours away from their home in Wilmore, Kentucky, to a place called Mouth of Wilson, Virginia, a quaint village with a population of about 100 people that was surrounded by rolling green hills, Christmas tree and tobacco farms and grazing cattle.
Larry Davis, his best friend and former college classmate, had just been named the head basketball coach at Oak Hil ...
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